October '04 babies - anyone fancy a kip?!!

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I certainly do. Bean is becoming more and more unsettled in the night as the weeks go by and it is taking its toll. Florence, you have my utmost admiration for still being alive, let alone managing a trip to NZ!! Hope its going well.

Bean is 3 months tomorrow, and people are already asking me if I am going to start weaning him soon? I would like to keep bf until he is 6 months, but how do I know if he needs to start sooner? Or will I know that is a stupid question when I have a permanently hungry baby on my hands?!!
What is everyone else planning to do?

Btw, am reading a marvellous, marvellous book called "What Mothers Do (especially when it looks like nothing)" by Naomi Stadlen. It talks about what a shock it all is, what we provide for a our babies and crucially, what I find missing from so many other books, how we actually feel - exhausted, sometimes angry towards db, unsure of ourselves etc etc. It does not tell me what I "should" be doing - hurrah!!! Cannot recommend it highly enough. Is doing me the world of good and we like that.

also ive put baba back in the walker as when i first got it when she was 4 months old, i put the "brakes" on so she couldnt move anywhere but it didnt work as she was dragging the walker around the living room so i decided shes too heavy on her legs so gave it a rest for 2 months and now she is loving it - wwwwhhhheeeeeeeeee!!!!!

Happy easter - may you have eaten many eggs and may your babies have not confused the hour. Mine is still wide awake (she clearly thinks the clocks have changed by 3 hours) and full of paper (she was playing with a leaflet and there is def. a corner missing.

Am no looking at a Xmas wedding - bishop can't fit it in, so wondering about April the 1st (no joke)

Hi guys, well i had a good easter and birthday, and ds went to stay with his gran for the first time!!! He got on ok, she had trouble feeding him but i think he has still got his chest infection or it has returned. He sounds awful, i feel another trip to the docs tmrw.

happi bday jbad.......

baba got her first taste in chocolate as her grandma bought her a buttons easter egg and she was sucking too hard and a bit of choccy came off in her mouth so i panicked but she carried on sucking it and swallowed it

big lips i see you put your baba in a walker....was checking them out at mothrecare on sat but thought dd was too young shes 5 months

what do you think, she is still a small baby only 14lb.......

we're debating whether or not to get a walker - quite fancy one of them entertainer things but they're dead expensive - our problem is we have to keep babymole sat still after his food cos of his reflux - everytime he rolls over he's sick but he hates his car seat with a passion.

Hi All, not been around for ages and have changed name from Beaker2 (didn't like the 2 bit!)

I put ds in his 9 month old cousin's walker yesterday and it totally flummoxed him (Laney, he is also smallish), so I don't think he is ready but that's not to say your's won't be!

Am having 'should I wean or not' crisis. Went to casualty yesterday as ds seemed very off colour and had a rash (I felt like a total fool when the doctor said 'he's just got a cold'!). Everyone there seemed to think I was bonkers for not having weaned yet and that the 6 month advice was rubbish. Aaaagh.

docket i am holding out for 6 months - only a few more weeks! I just want to minisimise any allegy risk and there is the poo factor and generating more work (cooking food etc)!

well i weaned at 4 mths(just thought dd was ready) she is still only having porridge and fruit and veg puree and she seems fine.....will wait untill 6mths for a more varied diet....
she had baby rice 1tsp for the 1st wk then 2tsp the 2nd week.....then tried her with organic porridge 2tsp..(she loved that) then the last week i tried carrott and courgette she preferred the carrott though...
although she seems to have very little it has made a difference with sleep now she will sleep 4/5/6 hrs through thye night instead of her usual 2 hrs......

I know it's more work but I'm strangely looking forward to the weaning thing, I like the idea of ds eating his meals with us. Think I will wait a little longer though and review, especially as we have many allergies in the family - he has started waking at 4ish now which I'm told is a 'surefire sign' but we'll see.

Spookily I am another one on this thread getting hitched, am planning a low key summer wedding although even that seems almost impossible, everything is booked up and then there's the 'if we invite x we can't not invite y' conundrum...

Docket - as you know, I'm hanging on for 6 months too. Am inclined to go with the WHO rather than the year the Dr./HV etc did their training. I was told the 4am thing is a sign of needing solids but have also read that it is a very, very typical time for babies to wake up (for no apparent reason). Arghhh!! Am v glad that you ds is ok, that must have been frightening.

Am at my mum's and she will look after ds while me and dp go on our first date in 5 months. Trouble is, I went to a scream showing and saw the ONLY film we would want to see last week. Ooops. Looks like the posh veggie restaurant then. Will I ever lose this weight.....?

if its any help i started weaning babymole at 4 1/2 mths on advice of consultant and he can still wake at 4. I think its more of a phase they go thru than a sign of hunger.

Well after my last rant DS slept through! (but only once. Holding out on weaning here too, which makes it highly amusing that he got 3 easter eggs i'm sure his brother and sister won't mind helping him out. DS currently has the cold that his brother and sister had last week so he is looking very sorry for himself.

Hello - I started to wean my ds at 4 months and he absolutely loved it. He's still only on veg and fruit purees and baby rice / porridge - like laneydaye I'm waiting til he's 6 months before adding more variety. It's loads more work and I can be heard on a regular basis reminiscing about the easy life of purely breast feeding - however ds is SO much happier. He still doesn't sleep through the night though

hellsy - same to mine as im holding till next week when baba is 6 months old on 1st april then ill start putting abit more solids in but slowly.

laney - well my baba is a solid big baba as she is nearly a 20 pounder !! and weighs a ton but she got no fat on her as she is very solid and strong...

If it's any consolation I started weaning dd just before she was 5 months (mainly because she was looking ver so longingly at our food and also because i'm going back to work this Monday and didn't want her to have to go through sleeping in her own room, weaning and being separated from mummy all at the same time). It hasn't helped one bit with sleeping through.
In fact, she wakes earlier now than ever before - usually between 4:30 and 5:30 and she's ravenous!
Generally, she has porridge with her 2nd bottle of the day, a selection of Mummy's own mushed up vegetables with her 4th bottle of the day and then a tea of mushed up fruit combination with her 6th bottle.
HV has suggested I give her the biggest meal with her last bottle or give her a supper meal as well - surely that's too much? Some days she will reject 2/3 meals anyway, somedays she'll down all 3 and not bat an eyelid.
One good thing though, she's taken to being in her own room wonderfully - doesn't care a jot whether I'm there! I've been blessed with a fairly laid back kid, so I'm off to feel unloved and not-needed now ...

By the way, how much do your babies weigh? DD is 23 weeks and weighs 16lb 6oz. Just wondering really ...

my baba is 26 weeks on friday and she last got weighed 2 months ago on her last jab and she was 17.3lbs so she may be more than 20 ......

she was a 9lb 1oz and 20 ins long when born and in the first 2 months she put on 5 lbs (she was going thru 9 bottles of 7 oz per day on white SMA so i changed to Gold Sma and it just one bottle less!!!!)

Hello everyone - just popping in to catch up.

Ds is doing well - I weaned him at 18 weeks and he took to it like a duck to water. He's now on 3 meals a day (as well as being b/f). I thought this would make him a real porker but he's still bobbing along just above the 25th percentile (neither dh or I are big so I think that's where he belongs).

Weaning hasn't really made any difference to his sleep although he will (very) occasionally go from 6pm (bedtime) til 2am. In a way I'm glad to hear that your dbs aren't all sleeping through - I'm getting a bit fed up with people telling me that he should be sleeping through and that I must be doing something wrong or should let him cry it out He wakes at 5.30/6 am every morning bright as a button and ready to start the day - I would just love a lie in until 7!

Anyway, hope you are well and the dbs are thriving.

Great to hear from you Piglit - glad it's going ok.
Bibi - very best wishes for Monday. Will be thinking of you. Post 'n' moan if you need to, ok?

New tactic - am now not feeding ds after the dream feed. He wakes up and take a while to settle, but he does in the end. He went from 11pm - 8am without a feed with no particular consequences. Am banking on him getting bored with waking up for no reward. Fingers crossed. It's a crazy plan, but hey, we might just pull it off. All the plotting and planning that goes into getting that boy to sleep - it's like Ocean's Eleven, except there are only two of us and ahem, we aren't as good looking.

Off to the town hall today to give notice of our forthcoming nuptials. Dp has "popped out". Wonder if he'll come back...?!

ds is 22 weeks and just over 15lbs, he's fairly slight. and currently exhausting me with his many nightwakings. i am trying to seek comfort in reminding myself that everything is a phase...

Ah the mantra in this house, "this too shall pass".... no indication of just when though. Humph.

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ds weighed 11lb 13oz 2 wks ago! Kinda put the solids on hold as ds not interested at the moment and he has another chest infection.

He is now 23 weeks old!

Going back to work in may as we are trying to sell our 1 bed flat and will need to get a mortg for a bigger place. It should only be temporary but i need to go back full time even though i really dont want to. Luckily i can take ds with me as i work in a day nursery

Hi all, and very best wishes on this grey and gloomy day (well it is here anyway).

DD2 is six months on Tuesday and has so far eaten a tissue; a handful of sand; sucked on a rice cake and mostly spurned a couple of offerings of carrot and rice. She loves sitting in her highchair though, so that's nice.

I've been through it a bit - all the accumulated stress from bf not working out, and dd1's nursery going to pot. I eventually succumbed to anti-depressants as my grip on things was loosening too much. Am happy to report that things are great now. Starting at work on Tuesday and already have a commission for a script which is fantastic and unexpected. DD1 loves her new nursery and have found smashing child minder for dd2.

Having said that, both girls have been diagnosed with asthma this week . It's all up and down isn't it!